It was Wednesday, 4:13pm and George stood outside the room paw on the door knob. He was hesitant, unsure of himself. Beyond the frame he could hear soft spoken voices. He turned to walk away when he saw Plato coming down the hall. He was shocked. Did this strong, handsome, well liked tom feel somehow unappreciated? "Oh, George, hi!" said the white and red with an awkward smile. "Hi." George muttered looking to his feet. "Um, are you going in?" Plato asked pointing towards the door. George shrugged. "Are you?" The new arrival nodded. With a reluctant sigh George pushed open the door.
Inside there was a circle of chairs gathered about with cats seated in every one except for where Dr. cats1991 sat. There was a teary eyed OC queen standing beside her chair. 91 spotted the new arrivals and nodded to Victor who stood and fetched a pair of folding chairs from the room. The toms sat listening to the dismayed queen. "It's not my fault my storyline isn't a unique one!" she sobbed. "The fan who wrote me into existence really likes the Rum Tum Tugger and wanted a story with an original cat and wrote me into existence! And my name!" the queen collapsed back into her chair. "Oh, Bombaldemeter, there's absolutely nothing wrong with you!" 91 said rubbing her red and gold back. "Besides your author is improving!" the therapist smiled. "Really?" Bombaldemeter sniffled. 91 nodded encouragingly.
The next cat stood up, "Hi, my name is Quietmoon, and I've been an OC for three chapters now, no reviews." "Hi Quietmoon!" the room chorused. "I just, I just try so hard!" the grey queen lamented. "I'm not based on existing characters, I have a fairly unique story to tell and everyone hates me for living the life my author designed!" George never realized how bad OCs had it, at least he was remembered, if not by his name.
This went on for some time until the session ended, Dr. cats1991 asked the three cannons to stay behind. "Well," she said walking up to them. "I talked to Support." she grinned. "Yeah, we were here." George said. "No," 91 shook her head. "Not that Support." she held out her phone opened to the fanfic character list for cats. Victor gasped hugging Plato tightly while George looked at the phone in disbelief. "I-Is that my name?" he asked as tears trekked down his cheeks. "Sure is, and Victor's and Plato/Admetus's" she grinned. "Thank you!" George gushed hugging the woman. "Don't thank me," she smiled. "We remember." she took her phone and began to strut out of the room, she turned back coyly. "By the way, I have it on good account that you'll be getting your own fic, Victor, you'll be there too." she assured before turning to George with a wink. "Hope you have a thing for OCs!"
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Hi, so this awesome person from Support named Zack who added and amended the character list upon my request asked that I spread the word, you guys should too! George and Victor are here to stay and Plato got his second name back! :)
Sorry if this upsets anyone, the Admetus/George misconception has been around for a long time, and I know this will affect some of your fics, but I didn't do this to be mean or hurt anyone, I was honestly just trying to help. No matter how long a misconception has been around or how commonly believed, it is still at it's heart a misconception, an incorrect thought or statement acted upon as fact, and needs to be corrected eventually, or what are we still going to believe the Earth is flat? lol